A Digg Request: Digg Widgets!
As Digg grows more with each new day, many users, including myself, are looking for ways to better network with friends and content. I propose the Digg Widget to help do just that.
But first…
Jeremiah Hoyet has an excellent post called “Will Digg’s Growth Affect The Community?” over on his blog, reeverb.
Having been a Digg user for almost two years now, I have seen the community change and grow with my own two eyes. I have been around since there were 200,000 users, Digg 3.0 release, Top User page removal, and their recent announcement of hitting 1 million registered users. The changes have been rough at times, but some things were for the better of the community, but oddly enough, I feel the growth beyond 1 million users will affect the community the most in the future.
I haven’t been around Digg quite that long, but I’m coming up on 7 months, so I’m no NOOB. I, too, have seen some drastic growth spurts take place. Like Jeremiah, I remember when Digg pulled the top user list. At first I thought it was a bad thing, but now I see far more users having influence on the system, which is a good thing.
However, as Jeremiah points out, finding stories is becoming a daunting task.
Digg is an open site, with a large amount of content for one user to digest. The amount of stories submitted in one day can range anywhere from two to ten thousand - that’s a lot to digest for a single user. If the shear amount of content 1 million registered users can generate isn’t enough, Digg doesn’t offer very many options at navigating this content effectively. The only navigation offered by Digg is the categories, which serve as a broad, general idea of the kind of content you will find inside the category.
I personally like a specific grouping of content. Having a friends list helps me get to it quicker, because I usually add friends based on content that I like to read. This helps sort through the clutter because my friends are usually Digging stories that match my preferences. But building an influential network is now much more difficult that it once was.
Now, there needs to be a LOT of changes throughout Digg’s system to keep up with the pace of growth, which I’m sure Digg is working on. But I have an idea that I would LOVE to see come into play… Digg Widgets.
It would be a huge help to have a Digg widget in the sidebar of my blogs that links to my “friends page”. Or at least, pulls data from that document. This would generate awareness to my network, and tell me more about the network/s of the site/s I visit.
Features could include:
-Latest stories Dugg from friends list
-Number of Digg’s those stories received
-Link to friends page
-Link to Digg profile
This little tool would be a win win for everyone! My visitors would know what my network is Digging, I would know what my network is Digging, and Digg would probably be getting a LOT more traffic than it now sees.
It may be a bomb of an idea, but it seems like a decent thought.
What say you?
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